Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool

 

Artist’s reconstruction of a Palaeolithic woman making a digging stick from an alder tree trunk. Image courtesy of G. Prieto; K. Harvati

Joel Kontinen

The oldest known wooden tools have been found in an opencast mine in Greece. They are 430,000 years old and were made by an unidentified species of ancient human – perhaps the ancestors of Neanderthals.

But the Neanderthals were the descendants of Adam and Eve, there is something wrong about the date of 430 000 years.

Prehistoric wooden artefacts are “very scarce”, says archaeologist Dirk Leder at the Lower Saxony State Office for Cultural Heritage in Hannover, Germany, who wasn’t involved in the study. “Every single find is welcome.”

Source:

Michael Marshall 2026 Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool | New Scientist 26 January

Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert

 

A cave near a site of ancient human occupation in the Arabian desert. Image courtesy of Huw S. Groucutt, et al

Joel Kontinen

Ancient humans used to live in the Arabian desert.  Evolutionists say that in the beginning it took place around 100,000 years ago but the dates of this is very doubtful.

The dry deserts of north-eastern Saudi Arabia were once wet enough to host vibrant communities of animals – and researchers have just found evidence that ancient hominins lived there too.

“This paper provides the first outline of the archaeological record of inland north-east Arabia – a vast region that has been unstudied,” says Monika Markowska at Northumbria University, UK, who wasn’t involved in the work.

The research focuses on a mostly underexplored region of the Arabian peninsula between Qatar and Kuwait. Records of a prehistoric human presence in this area are non-existent, yet scientists know it once received enough rain to support a thriving ecosystem.

Source:

Taylor Mitchell Brown 2025 Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert | New Scientist 2 December 

Evolutionists Dilemma: Denisovans are Our Ancestors

People getting a view of the Denisova Cave, Russia, where the original x-woman was found. Image courtesy of ЧуваевНиколай, CC BY-SA 3.0.



Joel Kontinen

Darwinian expectations have been wrong countless times. One of their mistakes has to do with the Denisovans which have been “known only from a handful of bones and teeth they left in Siberia’s Denisova Cave in Russia and the genetic legacy they bequeathed to living people across Asia.” a as Science articles put it.

Now, an article in New Scientist says we “may have bred with Denisovans much more recently than we thought”. Now, when the Neanderthals are humans, the evolutionists have to try another trick.

According to the model based on Genesis, the Neanderthals were Adam’s descendants just like us. They probably lived in Europe during the ice age following the Flood of Noah and it seems the Denisovans where their closest comrades.

Source:

Gibbons, Ann.2019. Moderns said to mate with late-surviving Denisovans. Science 364, 6435, 12-13. (5 April).

Wilson, Clare. 2019. We may have bred with Denisovans much more recently than we thought. New Scientist (2 April).